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Season Details & Credits

HULU | Season Premiere Date: November 22, 2022

Summary: The limited darkly comedic crime drama series created by Robert Siegel chronicles how Indian immigrant Somen "Steve" Banerjee (Kumail Nanjiani) created The Chippendales and the dangerous actions he took against potential competitors.

Creator: Robert D. Siegel

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, Movie/Mini-Series

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E8. Switzerland
Air Date: January 3, 2023
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S1:E7. Paper Is Paper
Air Date: December 27, 2022
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S1:E6. February 31st
Air Date: December 20, 2022

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Aurora Amidon

Nov 17, 2022

Chippendales not only tells a worthwhile story, it takes it a step further and scrapes at the depths of its characters’ psychologies, revealing a meditation on good and bad that is anything but black and white. Read full review

The Daily Beast Kevin Fallon

Nov 21, 2022

There is more than meets the eye to the Chippendales. The same is true of the Hulu show. Read full review

i Emily Baker

Jan 11, 2023

You have to keep watching simply to know where Banerjee ends up. Chippendales is a moreish junk-food binge and as enjoyable as it is at the time, it will leave you feeling a little bit grubby. Read full review

Judy Berman

Nov 17, 2022

Instead of fulfilling its potential for greatness, Chippendales settles for being merely good—and is sure to leave some viewers with the uncomfortable sense of having delighted in a dramatization of real people’s death and heartbreak. But its true-crime exploitation quotient doesn’t even approach that of Ryan Murphy’s recent smash Dahmer—Monster or the Renée-Zellweger-fat-suit burlesque of The Thing About Pam. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nandini Balial

Nov 21, 2022

Director Richard Shepard helms the last two episodes and brings some much-needed finesse to the proceedings, but previous episodes, directed by Nisha Ganatra, Matt Shakman, and Gwyneth Horder-Payton, plod along with paint-by-numbers prestige drama energy. Read full review

The Guardian Lucy Mangan

Jan 11, 2023

The sleaze, glamour and general air of excess that hung about the 80s is nicely captured, and all eight episodes can be easily binged. But you do long for some depth, some nuance, and perhaps an actor less fundamentally gentle than Kumail Nanjiani, who might have captured more convincingly the darkness lurking in Banerjee’s soul. Read full review

Angie Han

Nov 21, 2022

Over eight 45ish minute installments, the miniseries never quite works its way to a distinctive tone or style or perspective, and never finds all that much to say about what it’s showing us beyond some vague clichés about greed, pride and the immigrant experience. ... There’s a difference between buying the right stuff, and knowing what to do with it. Welcome to Chippendales, sadly, doesn’t know what to do with it. Read full review

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Kuggz

Dec 1, 2022

It's so bad it's good. Cheesy acting, campy everything, it's like if Macgruber took itself seriously. If there's nothing else on watch it for the sheer ridiculousness of the circus run amok feel.

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plumpudding

Dec 3, 2022

Kumail Nanjiani's acting is bad, he should stick to comedy. His bad performance hinders the series to become more of a mediocre shallow comedy

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: November 22, 2022
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  S1:E8. Switzerland
  Air Date: January 3, 2023
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  S1:E7. Paper Is Paper
  Air Date: December 27, 2022
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  S1:E6. February 31st
  Air Date: December 20, 2022
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  S1:E5. Leeches
  Air Date: December 13, 2022
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  S1:E4. Just Business
  Air Date: December 6, 2022
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  S1:E3. Velveeta
  Air Date: November 29, 2022
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  S1:E2. Four Geniuses
  Air Date: November 22, 2022
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  S1:E1. An Elegant, Exclusive Atmosphere
  Air Date: November 22, 2022